The team is working towards creating an open-source rover and drone system, that uses a ML algorithm to identify northern leaf blight in maize crops. The first goal of this open-source project is to prove this method of aerial and ground based disease detection is feasible. Our next goal is to ensure we can share and replicate this system outside of the Cornell community, so that any farmer or researcher can build on our project. This semester we are building out a website to share our findings and algorithms with any interested party. We are also working on using cloud computing to train the ML algorithm, and finalizing the electrical components of the Rover. We hope to get it fully moving and operation by the end of the semester.
FALL 2019
Education: Understanding convolutional neural networks and early stages of rover assembly.
FALL 2018
Analysis of initial surveying and community data. Continued outreach and research with the community.
SPRING 2020
Begin Designing algorithms and plant disease recognition methods and rover assembly goes remote.
FALL 2020
continuation...
SPRING 2021
continuation...
FALL 2021
Development: Create desktop app for rover-drone communication and rover electrical work and research rover automation
SPRING 2022
Testing: Test rover and drone with manual rover movement and CNN visual recognition.
FALL 2022
Refinement: Continue testing system and add deep learning to drone and explore rover automation.
Matt Sadowski
Subteam Co-Lead
Jessica Henson
Juhi Shyamsukha